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- Ayana M. Evans, is an African-American performance artist and educator based in New York City and an adjunct professor of visual art at Brown University. She also serves as editor-at-large of Cultbytes, an online art publication. Evans professional training focuses on traditional arts forms including painting and sculpture, as well as fashion design. Her performances make use of ordinary activities such as crossing the street, changing clothes and exercise to call attention to her experience as an African-American woman. She has performed at festivals, museums and art festivals around the United States, Martinique and Ghana. Her work has been reviewed in journals such as Hyperallergic, New York Magazine's The Cut, BOMB Magazine, , artnet, The Coastal Post, Huffington Post, BBC, and CNN. Her performances have been described as "grueling, yet nuanced performances using her own body to help audiences understand what black women often face" and a response to "the pressures of the modern art world and the misogynoir gaze." Ruth E. Iskin of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel said her "public guerrilla performances have often forced Caucasian, middle-class art audiences into an uncomfortable proximity with urban, African-American identity." (en)
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